Triathlete Vicky Holland became a three-time Olympian and judoka Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz made her Games debut during a busy Tuesday for University of Bath-based sportspeople at Tokyo 2020. Rio 2016 medallist Holland, who trains with the British Triathlon Bath National Performance Centre at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, finished 13th in an eventful women’s final that was affected by high winds and heavy rain after Typhoon Nepartak hit Tokyo in the early hours of the...
Liam Broady will make his Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020 next week after being added to the Team GB tennis squad. Broady, who is coached by Team Bath Tennis coach David Sammel, was offered a place in the men's singles draw by the International Tennis Federation due to his world ranking. Team GB Tennis Team Leader Iain Bates said: “This is brilliant news for Liam and I am delighted he is able to take up...
Liam Broady produced a brilliant performance on the opening day of Wimbledon 2021 to reach the second round of the men’s singles for the first time in six years. The touring professional, coached by Team Bath Tennis’s Dave Sammel, continued his fine form this year with a 6-3 6-4 6-0 victory over Italy’s Marco Cecchinato on No 3 Court. Broady saved a break point in the opening game before taking one at 4-3 and went...
Wimbledon is back for the first time since 2019 and there is Team Bath Tennis interest on the opening two days of the 2021 championships, with Liam Broady and Samantha Murray-Sharan scheduled to play their First Round matches. Touring professional Broady, coached by Dave Sammel, is due to face Italy’s Marco Cecchinato in the third match on No 3 Court on Monday, weather permitting. Cecchinato has not won a match on his three previous visits...
Team Bath Tennis duo Liam Broady and Samantha Murray Sharan will be taking to the famous grass courts at Wimbledon again this summer after being named among the initial wild cards for the 2021 tournament. Touring professional Broady, who is coached by David Sammel, will be making his fourth appearance in the men’s singles draw at SW19 having made the second round in 2015. He also faced Andy Murray and Milos Raonic in 2016 and...
Team Bath Tennis player Liam Broady will bid to reach Roland Garros for a second successive year when he competes in the French Open qualifying draw this week. Broady, who is coached by Dave Sammel, will take on Chinese Taipei player Jason Jung in the first round of the qualifiers on Monday and is looking for three wins in total to emulate his feat of 2020 and secure his place in the main draw. “The...
Team Bath Tennis ace Alicia Barnett continued her fine form during 2021 by claiming the women’s doubles title at the ITF Sharm-El-Sheikh tournament in Egypt. Barnett, who is coached by Ian MacDonald, and partner Yuriko Miyazaki didn’t drop a set all week as they underlined their status as top seeds in the draw. After starting their week with a 6-0 6-2 victory over Anna Borovinskaya and Laure Line Glaude, Barnett and Miyazaki overcame Lee Ya-Hsuan...
Team Bath’s Alicia Barnett was in great form at the weekend’s inaugural UK Pro League tennis series event, reaching the semis in an event won by Surrey’s Emily Appleton. Barnett won all five of her opening group games to set up the semi-final which turned into a three-set thriller against Beth Grey. Grey took the first but Barnett bounced back to win the second before Grey just got the upper hand in the final-set where...
Bath Rugby and Team Bath Netball players, aspiring Olympians and international medallists are among 16 high-performing University of Bath student-athletes selected to receive scholarship support on both their sporting and academic journeys. The new intake of sporting scholars for 2020-21, who compete across nine different sports and study across 11 diverse courses, each receive a cash award that runs over the period of their course and helps them meet the demands of training, competing and...
Australian Open men’s doubles champion Joe Salisbury provided an insight into his career and some inspirational advice during an online Q&A session with Team Bath Tennis players, parents and coaches. Salisbury – whose success alongside Rajeev Ram in Melbourne in January made him only the fourth Brit during the Open era to win a men’s doubles Grand Slam title – looked back on his experiences as a junior, at US college and now on the...
